MPH and TM Public Health and Tropical Medicine - 2001Tulane University

Bio

James H. Diaz, MD, DrPH, is a Professor in the LSU School of Public Health and is Program Director, Environmental / Occupational Health Sciences MPH. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, and is also director of the department’s newly created Family Medicine/Preventive Medicine Residency Program.

After receiving his MD from Tulane University School of Medicine in 1975, Dr. Diaz went on to complete a master’s degree in Health Administration, doctorate of Public Health in Health Systems Management, and master’s degrees in Public Health and Tropical Medicine, all from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He completed residency training in General Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Anesthesiology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, as well as a fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine and Chronic Pain Management at the Children’s Hospital of the University of Colorado. He is board-certified in Preventive Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Diaz is a Fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American College of Anesthesiologists, and The American Academy of Pediatrics.

Clinical Interests

Cancer pain management

Research Interests

Dr. Diaz's scientific interests have included autochthonous and imported parasitic infections, food-borne and arthropod-borne infectious diseases, and the impact of climate change on natural disasters and their public health outcomes. Dr. Diaz currently authors the section on ectoparasite-borne infectious diseases in Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, now in its eighth edition.